Known vulnerabilities in Automatic Featured Images from Videos

If a YouTube or Vimeo video embed exists near the start of a post, we'll automatically set the post's featured image to a thumbnail of the video.

2Reported vulnerabilities

4.3Highest CVSS score

1.2.9Latest version

7,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Automatic Featured Images from Videos to 1.2.8 or later. 2 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: July 14, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.0.4 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2026-24535	Medium 4.3	0.2%	1.2.7 and earlier	`1.2.8`	January 25, 2026
CVE-2025-31820	Medium 4.3	0.3%	1.2.4 and earlier	`1.2.5`	April 1, 2025

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.